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Mr Ramos’ comments come as North Wales Police reveal reports of hate crime are going up following the referendum.

Officers had to deal with a 56 incidents of racist crime from July to September last year - an increase of 22% on the previous three months.

Mr Ramos said those he has spoken to now voice anxieties about the increase in violence towards foreigners.

“The biggest concern in the community here not just the Portuguese but all the other immigrant communities is the violence that has grown up after Brexit, it was a sharp increase. The numbers from the Home Office show that.

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"People here have felt hate crimes in their own skin and that should lead to a conversation of what Brexit should mean. These people made their lives here. These kinds of acts do not reflect all of the society but it’s very concerning because we are talking about human lives and they deserve respect,” he said.

Speaking yesterday on the day the town’s council moved to sign an agreement with the Government of Portugal to work closer together, members of the community said they had felt a change in how foreigners are now treated in the town.

Iolanda Banu Viegas, 42, from Mozambique now living in Caia Park who has called Wrexham home for 16 years, said: “People are very worried about Brexit. We don’t know if we will be allowed to carry on living and working here. We will have to get residency cards and the ones without them will be left not knowing what to do and not knowing if they will have to go back to Portugal.”

Iolanda Banu Viegas (Image: Daily Post Wales)

She added that uncertainty about what the decision would mean would cause problems for her fellow ex-pats.

Ms Viegas said: “There are people here whose children’s first and second languages are English and Welsh and if they go back their children’s education will be disrupted because they will have to learn fluent Portuguese and those children will lose out.

“There are also businesses that are established here in the town like the cafés and shops for the community, there is so much uncertainty and it means we can’t make any plans.”

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Luis Faria, 39,from the north of Portugal came to Wales 13 years ago to work in a factory and now owns the Vasco De Gama café in Wrexham.

He said: “I think Brexit is bad for the foreign people and it’s bad for the economy because in my opinion the UK will stay on its own and for my business and Polish businesses to bring goods from abroad it’s going to make it more difficult. And also it’s going to make it difficult to make deals with other countries, everything is going to get more expensive.

Luis Faria the owner of the Vasco De Gama Cafe in Wrexham (Image: Daily Post Wales)

" I understand there are many people on benefits, people who come just for benefits but that does not mean it’s all of us. We try to make a life here, this is my country now, I think it will be bad for all of us including the British people.”